Ruth Smith Nielsen (5 April 1913 in Vágur – 26 May 1958) was a Faroese artist.

[2] Smith married the architect Poul Morell Nielsen in 1945.

[1] Later, with her husband, she moved back to the Faroe Islands; and in the last years of her life she lived in the small village of Nes, which is located on the fjord Vágsfjørður between the villages Vágur, where she was born, and Porkeri.

Ruth Smith dealt with colours more sensitively than many of her contemporaries.

She caught the Faroese light in her pictures, and the colours vibrate under brush lines.